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# wing

«wing» in Mova's school dictionary: **the part of a bird, bat or plane that lets it fly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wings); verb (wings, winging, winged)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wing is the part of a bird, bat or plane that lets it fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wing/#m1)

2) To wing or to wing one's way is to fly or travel quickly, as a bird does. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wing/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the part of a bird or flying creature used to fly; in stories a messenger is winging his way to the king

### examples

- The eagle spread its wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wing/#x1)
- The swallow is winging its way south. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wing/#x2)
- Each bird has two wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wing/#x3)
- The message came winging across the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wing/#x4)

### note

A bird has 2 wings, so 5 birds have 10 wings

### In the corpora

- [A dragonfly has 6 legs and 4 wings, like many insects.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/17/)
- [Owl wing feathers have comb-like front edges, soft fringes and a velvety surface that muffle the sound of flying.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/8/)
- [All birds have two wings and two legs; most have four toes on each foot, but the ostrich has only two.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/12/)
- [A hoverfly has one pair of wings and can hover still in the air, while a wasp has two pairs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/12/)
- [Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly relatives had wings about 70 centimetres across.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.